[Libmesh-devel] libmesh-0.5.0-rc1 released!

[KIRK, B. (JSC-E. (NASA) <ben...@na...>]

libMesh 0.5.0 release candidate 1 is now available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71130
Please check it out and report any issues so they can be addressed.

This version includes a substantial number of improvements, extensions, and
a few bug fixes.  
Some notable changes are:

- Mac OSX Support

- New interface for SLEPc eigensolvers

- PETSc interface 
  - Support for PETSc-2.3.0
  - Preliminary support for PETSc's nonlinear solvers

- Mesh generation
  - libMesh now includes interfaces to triangle and tetgen for 
    simplicial mesh generation in 2D and 3D

- Infrastructure for C1 finite elements

- Additional Finite Element Families
  - Clough-Tocher C1 piecewise cubic triangles
  - Bernstein polynomials (for well-conditioned linear systems with high p)


- Support for adaptive mesh refinement with non-Lagrange elements
  - Includes AMR with C1 elements

- More efficient construction of element sides

- Bug fixes
  - in Laspack with complex numbers
  - in XDR interface with complex numbers
  - Include element subdomain id when broadcasting a mesh


--
Benjamin S. Kirk
ben...@na... 
NASA/JSC, Applied Aerosciences & CFD Branch
281-483-9491